Teacher Profiles

Ella Tighe is a dance artist and yoga teacher based in London. Ella completed her 200 hour certification in Ashtanga/ Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga with Ervin Menyhart (Yoga Coventry), before more recently undertaking a further 100 hours in Rocket and Mandala Vinyasa Yoga with The Yoga People (Dulce Aguilar and Jamie Clarke). Since her first class, yoga […]

For Katrin, yoga is an everlasting exploration of the body and mind connection, a search for freedom from tension. It is this connection, that not only yokes us to the present, but also to each other and nature. Katrin holds a 200h Vinyasa Flow Yoga teacher certificate from Frog Lotus, a 200h Vajrasati Yoga Teacher […]

Helena has been practising yoga for half her life now, with varying levels of intensity. She instantly fell in love with the astanga practice though it hasn’t always been easy to fit it around the demands of work, study and life. Helena understands the challenges students can face in building a consistent practice – her […]

Ozlem is a Vinyasa Flow and pre- and post-natal yoga teacher. Ozlem teaches with love and knowledge for women and mothers to enjoy pregnancy and the beginning of motherhood. She has had 3 healthy pregnancies. Yoga helped her to connect with her babies and to recover after birth giving her the confidence to raise a […]

About Sieske After years of having a physically and mentally demanding job and study, Sieske found it was time to start taking better care of her body and mind. Although she started of having a love and hate relationship with yoga, the love became increasingly stronger over the years. It led her to Dharamkot, India, […]

Claudia achieved her 200 hours accreditation in Vajrasati Yoga in 2016 and started teaching that year. Studying with Jim Tarran she is on her way towards gaining her 500 hours status. Claudia teaches honestly and with kindness, allowing time for and encouraging an absorbed and integrated practice, pointing students to their own experience and in doing […]

Khadine has been practicing yoga since 1997 when she discovered yoga asana following a meditation course and she found home within! Khadine has been teaching yoga since 2004 and is a senior yoga alliance registered teacher and a senior Vajrasati teacher and teacher trainer. Her teaching style is calming and focused with particular attention given to […]

Roy Russell has a BSc (Hon) Sport Science degree (2007) and a teaching qualification in Iyengar yoga. His academic knowledge combined with experience in teaching Iyengar yoga to sports teams has given him a deep understanding of the benefits that can be gained through the practice of yoga.

Jim Tarran Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher attended his first yoga sessions in 1990. In 1992 he traveled to India and completed a teacher training at the Patanjali Yoga center in Nepal. One year later he began running classes in Byron Bay Australia. Returning to England in 1994, he began his Iyengar teacher training, successfully graduating […]

Lara was introduced to Iyengar yoga in 2000 and from the first inspiring class at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of South London, she never looked back. Today she cannot imagine her life without the practice of yoga. Lara gained the Iyengar yoga teaching certificate in 2007 learning the Iyengar method from Jayne Orton in Birmingham. […]

When she was a teenager, Roxanne suffered from chronic back pain caused by scoliosis of the spine. After trying many solutions, she found that a regular yoga practice was the only thing to relieve the pain and bring strength. Since then, she has been in love with the transformational power of this practice. Five years […]

Celia Henebury has been practicing Iyengar yoga since 1994 and teaching since 2008. She holds the Junior Intermediate Level 2 certiﬁcate. She has studied with the Iyengar family in Pune and other leading teachers in India. Her main teacher is Alaric Newcombe, one of the most senior teachers in the country, who continues to inspire […]

Maurizio trained and qualified in 2008 as a Traditional Hatha Yoga Instructor at the ‘Amrita School of Yoga’ in London under the expertise and eclectic guidance of Nigel Gilderson and Chris Gladwell. In 2012 he also completed the 500 Hours Teacher Training with Quantum Yoga Lara Baumann, in Goa.

I started developing my yoga practice in 2005 and was introduced to the beautiful, simple and powerful discoveries of Vanda Scarvelli. Scaravelli’s philosophy of “be kind to yourself” has helped me work through injuries during my years of running. I believe the knowledge I have gained so far has to be constantly nurtured, the constant yearning for […]